Word: cartes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the U.S. ran out of silver dol lars a year and a half ago, it meant only one thing for Nevada's gambling casinos: snake eyes. Gone were the traditional silver-dollar slot machines, the familiar clank of "cart wheels," the bulging pants pockets. At least until onetime Adman Joseph Segel came on the scene...
Morally and structurally free-spirited, the film unequivocally puts the cart before the horse in showing that sex can precede love. Director Lindgren bends a few other rules too. Having analyzed to perfection the urgent biochemistry between a man on the make and a girl who probably won't say no, he follows it with a session of post-lovemaking banter that seems about as explicit as the law allows, at least for the moment...
...century ago, Abraham Lincoln received a letter from Anna's King of Siam offering a gift of elephants to "bear burdens and travel through uncleared woods and matted jungles where no carriage and cart roads have yet been made." The beasts might have served well in the Civil War's Battle of the Wilderness, but Lincoln politely declined the offer. The sentiment, however, was not forgotten...
...feed him in the planned 90-room hotel and restaurant, play a round of golf with him, and fly him back to his office the same day. Outside Washington, a developer is turning the Montgomery County (Md.) airport into an airpark, already has 170 aircraft based there. A golf-cart manufacturer is building beside the airstrip, and IBM, Fairchild Hiller, Sprague Electronics, Bechtel Corp., and the National Bureau of Standards are building nearby...
...century, Lewis B. Hershey has directed the largest and most unpopular employment bureau in the world. During World War II, he drafted more than 10.1 million men; when the war ended, "no one else wanted the job, so I stayed on." Hershey's philosophy is simple: "We count 'em, cart 'em and send 'em." He has spent most of his career supplying manpower to the military, but he thinks himself as much a politician as a soldier. And he has enormous faith in the wisdom of his "constituents" -- the 4,000 local draft boards that classify 1.4 million men accross...